CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

[link to mobile.bloomberg.com] worsening situation in Syria has accelerated deliberations inside the Obama administration about the next steps for the U.S. ahead of next week’s Group of Eight Summit with world leaders.“We’re fully aware about the worsening situation in Syria and are assessing options in light of that,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today.The U.S. is “concerned by the involvement of outside actors in trying to prop up” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Carney said. At the same time, the Syrian opposition “has strengthened and has become more sophisticated” and the U.S. has “worked more directly with them and developed stronger relationships with leaders within the opposition.”Carney’s comments came a day after top U.S. national security officials met at the White House to discuss options that may include arming the Syrian rebels, and after former President Bill Clinton said at an event yesterday that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully in Syria.The Syrian rebellion will be a leading topic when Obama and other world leaders meet next week at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. The group is composed of leaders from the U.S., France, U.K., Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia.Clinton, according to a report published by Politico, said that aid to the Assad regime from Russia as well as Iran and Hezbollah raises the question of whether the U.S. should “do something to try to slow their gains and rebalance the power so that these rebel groups have a decent chance.” Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. and Israel.Asked to respond to Clinton’s critique, which was made in a closed event at the McCain Institute for International Leadership in New York, Carney said that Obama welcomes advice from “people who have expertise in this matter” while taking a long-view approach.White House MeetingSecretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were among participants yesterday at the White House meeting on Syria policy, according to a U.S. official.Kerry canceled plans for a trip to the Middle East this week to participate in the talks including discussions about what the U.S. can do to aid rebel forces opposing Assad’s regime. The official asked not to be identified because the meeting wasn’t publicly announced.Obama didn’t attend as he was traveling for political events in Massachusetts and Florida.“We’re meeting to talk about the various balances in this issue right now,” Kerry told reporters yesterday, speaking about deliberations over Syria policy in general and not about the White House meeting. Assad is “making it very difficult” for the U.S. and allies to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, he said.Helping Rebels“I have nothing to announce about that at this point, but clearly the choice of weapons that he has engaged in, across the board, challenge anybody’s values and standards of human behavior,” Kerry said at a joint news conference with U.K. Foreign Minister William Hague. “We’re going to have to make judgments for ourselves about how we can help the opposition to be able to deal with that.”Obama’s administration is under press

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

American officials say they have confirmed that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the insurgency seeking to remove it, the Associated Press reports.

An internal memorandum circulating within the Obama administration has assessed that chemical weapons, most likely the nerve gas sarin, were used multiple times in battle against the Syrian rebels.

The “intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year,” according to that memo, as cited by The New York Times.

White House officials speculated over evidence that nerve gas had been used as of April, but that evidence is now being called “definitive” – with Congressional sources describing the conclusion as crossing the “red line” for US military intervention as previously defined by the president.

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

The worsening situation in Syria has accelerated deliberations inside the Obama administration about the next steps for the U.S. ahead of next week’s Group of Eight Summit with world leaders.“We’re fully aware about the worsening situation in Syria and are assessing options in light of that,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today.The U.S. is “concerned by the involvement of outside actors in trying to prop up” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Carney said. At the same time, the Syrian opposition “has strengthened and has become more sophisticated” and the U.S. has “worked more directly with them and developed stronger relationships with leaders within the opposition.”Carney’s comments came a day after top U.S. national security officials met at the White House to discuss options that may include arming the Syrian rebels, and after former President Bill Clinton said at an event yesterday that President Barack Obama should act more forcefully in Syria.The Syrian rebellion will be a leading topic when Obama and other world leaders meet next week at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. The group is composed of leaders from the U.S., France, U.K., Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia.Clinton, according to a report published by Politico, said that aid to the Assad regime from Russia as well as Iran and Hezbollah raises the question of whether the U.S. should “do something to try to slow their gains and rebalance the power so that these rebel groups have a decent chance.” Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. and Israel.Asked to respond to Clinton’s critique, which was made in a closed event at the McCain Institute for International Leadership in New York, Carney said that Obama welcomes advice from “people who have expertise in this matter” while taking a long-view approach.White House MeetingSecretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were among participants yesterday at the White House meeting on Syria policy, according to a U.S. official.Kerry canceled plans for a trip to the Middle East this week to participate in the talks including discussions about what the U.S. can do to aid rebel forces opposing Assad’s regime. The official asked not to be identified because the meeting wasn’t publicly announced.Obama didn’t attend as he was traveling for political events in Massachusetts and Florida.“We’re meeting to talk about the various balances in this issue right now,” Kerry told reporters yesterday, speaking about deliberations over Syria policy in general and not about the White House meeting. Assad is “making it very difficult” for the U.S. and allies to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, he said.Helping Rebels“I have nothing to announce about that at this point, but clearly the choice of weapons that he has engaged in, across the board, challenge anybody’s values and standards of human behavior,” Kerry said at a joint news conference with U.K. Foreign Minister William Hague. “We’re going to have to make judgments for ourselves about how we can help the opposition to be able to deal with that.”Obama’s administration is under press

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

If USA will attack Syria, it will be a very huge war. Just imagine how much friends both sides have. World leaders have to be very careful with this one, because one wrong step can lead to unbelievable things.

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

seriously - it's june

this stuff is getting tired

this didn't start ww3 in february when it was meant to nor in march the UN almost let the cat out of the bag in may when they admitted they only had evidence of the US armed Syrian rebels using chemical weapons

so unless the US is ready to start ww3 with itself then can we move on?

every couple of weeks this is trotted out to try and justify the unjustifiable

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

Yeah yeah yeah - they've been kicking this "if they used chemicals..." can around for a while now, still nothing has happened. I'm not sure why not - seems like they are waiting for some specific event/ok/go-ahead/clearance or something from someone or some entity before they unleash the "shock and awe."

It all seems like a big sleight of hand trick - a month or 2 ago, 'they' were saying "look here, look here!" about the Syria situation, you couldn't get away from it. Now, it's all "look here! Look here!" about the NSA/Snowden scandal as well as the IRS scandal, and it's almost like the Syria situation has been forgotten - or at least put on a back burner.

But with this coming out, it shows that it really hasn't, it's just on hold. The question is, until what?

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak up, and remove all doubt." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

Yeah yeah yeah - they've been kicking this "if they used chemicals..." can around for a while now, still nothing has happened. I'm not sure why not - seems like they are waiting for some specific event/ok/go-ahead/clearance or something from someone or some entity before they unleash the "shock and awe."

It all seems like a big sleight of hand trick - a month or 2 ago, 'they' were saying "look here, look here!" about the Syria situation, you couldn't get away from it. Now, it's all "look here! Look here!" about the NSA/Snowden scandal as well as the IRS scandal, and it's almost like the Syria situation has been forgotten - or at least put on a back burner.

But with this coming out, it shows that it really hasn't, it's just on hold. The question is, until what?

Re: CONFIRMED..ASSSAD USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.... Red Line CROSSED.....WW3 STARTS NOW...obama to meet with G-8 NEXT WEEK ON HOW TO CONDUCT WAR

well it sorts of begs the question- what do you protest about ?

is it snowden and the sanctioned illegal monitoring of private citizens worldwide? - or is it the arming of Syrian rebels-the only ones the UN has significant evidence of USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS - to inflame a ww3 scenario which benefits nobody or so few of the population as to be effectively nobody

or do you just give up and bend over as your government is so rife with abuse , corruption and tyranny that you don't know where to start ?

if it were me - which it is in effect- I would start with the media

the best protest is to switch it off , not buy their shitey rags of propaganda, not watch the same old telly ( which you can 'catch up' on another day if you're desperate ) their internet sites - nothing